10 Video Games With The Tightest Timed Sections

And finally, we come to perhaps the single-most irritating timed mission of all time, because it's the damn tutorial.

Classic PS1 racing game Driver opens with a tutorial in which players must perform a series of nine vehicular manoeuvres from a checklist, all within a 60-second time limit.

Now, even without the time limit this wouldn't exactly be a picnic, given that in 1999 kids weren't able to find out what "slalom" meant with a few taps of their smartphone, but the time limit transforms this tutorial from misguided to downright torturous.

You'll need some slick driving skills and more than a little dose of luck to actually pull this off inside of a hot minute, but for many young players it was difficult enough to effectively end the game before it properly got started - unless they had an older relative around to help them out.